Microsoft experiences outage for Outlook, SkyDrive, and other services

A small set of prominent Microsoft services including Outlook and SkyDrive are experiencing outages today.

CloudPhysics raises $10M to crowdsource insights for virtualized IT

CloudPhysics made a triple threat of announcements today. The big data company has raised $10 million in funding led by Kleiner and released two new analytics tools to optimize virtualized data centers.

New Relic grows 130 percent, poised to hit $100M runrate (exclusive)

New Relic, the fast-growing software analytics company that tracks how applications are performing, said it had growth of 130 percent in the most recent quarter compared to same quarter a year ago.

Box polishes its Android app with better navigation, account switching, and more

Enterprise cloud storage and collaboration powerhouse Box has updated its Android app with lots of new features to keep business teams better connected on the platform.

Looker scores $16M from Redpoint to take on Tableau & SAP in business intelligence

Big data and analytics startup Looker has raised $16 million in its first round of funding to promote data-driven discovery in “big data” software and to help it take on major players in the space.

Hybrid storage company Tegile gets $35M — to poke giant NetApp

Tegile Systems, a Silicon Valley company that makes hybrid storage for virtualized server and desktop environments, said it has raised $35 million in a third round of funding.

Salesforce COO George Hu on conquering the cloud world (CloudBeat 2013)

Salesforce has exerted leadership in cloud for more than a decade, and shows no sign of slowing down. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Salesforce COO George Hu will be speaking at CloudBeat 2013.

Enterprise Jungle wants to help you match up employees who’d collaborate best (exclusive)

The technology is still in its alpha phase, but is being used by a handful of large corporate customers. In a nutshell, it helps companies connect employees who would work well together.

CloudBeat 2013: How Stanford is ‘going cloud’

One of the world’s top universities, Stanford, is the latest to join the roster of our CloudBeat 2013 event next month.

This ‘big data’ app drives big sales for big retailers, instantly

“The quickness to market is incredible,” says Gregory Phillips, a senior web analyst at OfficeMax. “It’s literally hitting a button.”

More open source! Google lends 79 patents to the community

The company announced it added these patents to its Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge today as it tries to build an even bigger collection of open-source patents anyone can use.

Education rocks, social media sucks: Zendesk’s 16,000-company customer service survey

Social networks are all about people, right? Perhaps, but they’re the worst industry at one of the most important things a brand can do: customer service.
And not just by a little.

Nimble keeps punching at Salesforce — integrates Dropbox (exclusive)

Nimble, a company that offers customer relationship management software that is more social that its competitors, today will launch support of Dropbox integration.

Developer favorite Digital Ocean nabs $3.2M for its cloud hosting service

The company launched last year, but claims to already have over 35,000 developer customers, who have developed 340,000 virtual servers. IA Ventures, the firm that led the round, invested off the back of this growth.